Early the next morning, the large family got up early, had breakfast, and Zhulan checked that none of the offerings for the ancestral worship were missing. The whole family then returned to Zhou Family Village.
The Zhou clan had an ancestral hall, and Zhou Shuren, having passed the imperial examination, first went to the ancestral hall to worship, then took the eldest Zhou sons and Mingyun and Ming Teng to the mountain to worship at the graves of his original parents.
Zhulan, meanwhile, took a few daughters-in-law to meet the women in the clan at the old residence. With Zhou Shuren having become a Graduate and purchasing land for the clan, the Zhou family's status within the clan was challenging that of the Clan Leader's family.
If it were not for the Clan Leader's continuous and laborious work for the clan, Zhou Shuren would have overtaken the Clan Leader by now.
